Love is in the Stars !

LOVE is a music that plays through the universe, holding the strings of your heart and filling you with positive energy, letting you tune into your soul... It all is really written in the stars and your soulmate will come along when the time is right, and the planetary positions are aligned accordingly! The journey of our soul on this earth between birth and death moves along a predestined path.

When you look across a room and feel drawn to a stranger, the pull can signal a karmic connection. Feeling attracted to someone without having spoken a word or knowing their likes or dislikes or what we term ‘love at first sight’ is not a myth. It means you’ve known each other at some point across time, in another birth. It also means that there are still unfulfilled desires and emotions left from that past connection.

Not all such connections would necessarily end up in marriage, though. As it’s often said, people may come into our lives for a reason or a season. If you’ve learnt your lessons from each other well, you may progress to the level of marriage in the present lifetime. But, if there are still parts of you that don’t connect, it might require another lifetime before you can be said to ‘complete each other’ as lovers and partners. In fact, patterns can even repeat themselves over several births, forcing you to rough out the tough times, till you finally learn the lesson, paving the way to being reunited.

A soulmate is one who makes you feel complete, fills the gaps in your life and helps you to realise your full potential. Love has the power to give you happiness and pain, grief and joy. Certain individuals that you meet in this life may make you feel complete, fill the gaps in your life and help you realise your full potential. There are others who have swords hidden to hurt you. In both cases, you have to learn to keep the faith. Once the situation gets over, you will awaken to the reason why a particular person was in your life. Accept all the seasons of your heart.
Not many are aware that love can be tracked in your stars. The movement of planets decides where and who your parents, siblings and relatives will be. These planets bring love and soulmates too. Your astrological chart also explains why you’re attracted to certain types of relationships.

In astrology, marriage is considered a partnership, where two souls travel through the journey of life together. The bond is considered sacred.

Astrologically speaking, this year on Valentine’s Day, the moon is in the sign of Libra, the goddess of love. This means a day when love and positive emotions flow, so let your inner light shine!

(from an article by an astrologer)

The Magic of the Night.

The season of long nights gives us a little more time to enjoy night’s fruits. Night, as we see it, was created by God along with the day from light says the Book of Genesis. But what was there before light if not a long night of abiding silence and darkness? It’s therefore more ancient than the day. And for the same reason, it transports us spiritually to the beginning of the Creation.

Night is essential to maintain the biological rhythm of all creatures. But for us human beings, who are naturally diurnal, it has an added significance. Its gifts of silence, tranquillity, darkness, the moon and a sky lit with stars, are a balm for not only the tired body, but also for the restless mind, the sad heart and the troubled soul. Night is a great companion, and a good listener. It allows one to talk one’s heart out without even speaking.

If day reveals the world in bright colours, night brings alive the heavens. If day keeps us rooted to the ground, night hearkens the spirit to rise above the mundane. We have different ways of achieving that. Poets do it by communion with their muse, thinkers delve into deep thought, artists let their imagination fly, astronomers explore the deep mysteries of the universe and others dream.

Night’s beauty and charm have been part of folklore.
“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day,” said Vincent Van Gogh.
His sentiments are immortalised in his painting, The Starry Night, which captures night’s eternal beauty. The night had cast such a spell on the painter that he created the masterpiece during daytime from memory.


Darkness, night’s daughter, is usually associated with gloom and ignorance. But it has its own force and character. Light is fickle and shallow but darkness is steadfast. And it has depth. “O radiant Dark/ O darkly fostered ray/ Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day,” wrote George Elliot in The Spanish Gypsy.

Light is a veneer, concealing more than it reveals. It stands for differentiation. That this difference is only illusory, is revealed by darkness. On the one hand darkness emphasises the essential oneness of everything. On the other hand it lays bare the true nature of everything. Light is beguiling in that we see things more through visual perception. But darkness, by sharpening all our perceptions — sensory and extrasensory — allows us to form a more holistic picture of everything.

Used as a metaphor, darkness has a valuable lesson. In the bright sunshine of life everything looks good and every person a friend. Only when darkness descends we begin to realise what is what and who is who, bringing us closer to the truth. Darkness guides us to tap our inner light. In addition, darkness reveals stars. And what are they if not harbingers of hope and windows to new horizons?

The certainty of night’s arrival at the end of the day points to the eternal truth that all things we perceive must come to pass. This realisation is painful if we focus on pleasures but the thought is comforting when we turn our gaze to life’s sorrows and suffering. It brings home the wisdom that they are the happiest who neither get too attached to life’s good things nor are weighed down by adversity.

Night is also a metaphor for death though it is live and dynamic. And so should be death — neither inert nor conclusive but only a throbbing interregnum. Our end, therefore, must be viewed as the womb from which a new beginning is born. That’s what the poet must have meant when he said,
“In my end is my beginning.”